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GUY MANNERING.
CHAPTER V.
A prison is a house of care,
A place where none can thrive,
A touchstone true to try a friend,
A grave for one alive.
Sometimes a place of right,
Sometimes a place of wrong.
Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves,
And honest men among.
Early on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house, was, with his two silent and surly attendants, appointed to convey him to his place of confinement at Portanferry. This building adjoined to the custom-house established at that little seaport, and both were established so close to the sea-beach, that it was necessary to defend the back part with a large
